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Tschatschin qualified for Inzell in just his second meeting back in 2005.Although then there were quali's before the semi's.Plus i don't think Max Niedermaier had much more than that(if any more)when he qualified for the GPs last year

You're just trying to add posts to lower my average!

Not a lot happening as far as i can tell.A few signings been made The rider who surprised a lot of people in the Polish Final last year,Jeleniewski has signed for Diedenbergen.Plus it has been announced that Manuel hauzinger has signed for Olching.But one of the agents here and the guy who worked with Manuel at Wolfslake announced Manuel has signed for Pfaffenhofen.So who do we believe?I know there was a bit of this happening last year.With Wolfslake announcing they had signed Pawel Hlib and then Teterow doing the same. Big rumour is that Stralsund will not participate in the Bundesliga,but they haven't updated their web-site for about a month since announcing it was "no end of chaos in the Bundesliga" so we await confirmation of that If they don't participate Matze Schultz is expected to be back at Diedenbergen

Well i did get the 6 right.Just not in the right order That is a big improvement for me. Well done Dmitri Tschatschin! And i see Germany have announced their team for Krasnogorsk G.Bauer D.Tschatschin M.Niedermaier Surprised no Stefan Pletschacher after this weekends performance,but there you go.Bring the youngsters on

It is ok in theory,but i doubt Denmark would want 2 GPs and Norway was a bit of a flop and Finland well I don't know why they keep going at Lonigo.Maybe they get some good sponsorship or the local promoters pay well.But i do think the series will expand elsewhere in the near future with Russia and probably Malaysia or one of the other Asian countries Ivan Mauger said he has had interest from hosting one or two.Then unless Sweden and Poland are paying good money they will probably be down to one GP.Unless Mr.Know knows better

I thought Krasnikov is riding in Inzell? My tip providing Krasnikov isn't there 1.Franky 2.P.Tschajka 3.D.Ivanov 4.H.Simon 5.G.Laguta(if he rides) ................... 6.D.Tschatschin

Best bet is to run it on British tracks. Australia footie team have played a few games in England haven't they because it is easier to get the team together

It is great to see Posa still able to compete with the Russians at 59! And that was an important win for Klabo over Pletschacher in the last heat

See the attendances for yesterday and today were 1,800 and 2,300. And Stefan is still in touching distance of that last qualifying place Running totals from isracing.net D Khomitsevich 20p V Khomitsevich 19p P Serenius 19p I Drozdov 16p A Klatovsky 14p A Aakko 13p S Pletschacher 12p P Koij 11p J Klatovsky 10p R Stellingwerf 9p J Söderström 8p S Gartmann 5p J Weber 5p J Seppänen 4p J Saetre 2p C Kirchner 0p

Yes i can imagine.Plus my question about track size was also answered in that the track is (i think)480m,which in Europe would make it a longtrack rather than speedway track.So i can understand the worries now.And i had no idea at what time the meetings was run there nor what the temps were

Stefan Pletschacher doing well and with a good chance in his last heat.Can at least go into tomorrow with hope of getting that last place.Will please Roland Haupt and the Pletschacher fan club

update d komichevitch 12p v komichevitch 11 p drosdov 10p posa 10p koij 7p a klatovsky 7p aakko 6p pletshacher 6p j klatovsky 6p Stellingwerf 5p Jocke söderström 5p weber 4p gartman 3p Säppänen 2p Jo Satre 1p Kirchner 0 p So Jan has dropped back a bit Pretty tight for that last spot

Ok Thanks.I wasn't looking at the heat details.Just imagined he would be on 6 Jan Klatovsky presumably had two easy heats or is he riding out of his skin?

After 8 heats from isracing.net d komichevitch 6p j klatovsky 6p a klatovsky 5p dorsdov 5p posa 4p koij 3p gartman 3p weber 3p aakko 2p pletshacher 2 Jocke söderström 1p Jo Satre 1p Stellingwerf 1p Säppänen 0p Kirchner 0 p Guess Vitali also has 6 points.But did Aakko fall in one heat?

That is what i thought.Just wondered if there was anything else Same here and about +10

Anyone know how many qualify from Stockholm?I am guessing it is 5 plus 5 from Saalfelden and then 6 from Inzell.But that is just a guess.With 3 Russians it is going to be very tight what with Posa,Aakko and Klabo.A repeat of Saransk last year with those 3 fighting it out. And anyone know if there will be live updates?

It really was a genuine enquiry.I thought maybe they rode on oversized tracks(to Europes specs) maybe I mean like i say my local track is just under 400m and a bit further away is a track of about 450m but that is classed as a longtrack so they ride with different bikes there.

You were mentioning being worried about running out of dope and talk of the size of the track.I just mentioned that in Poland and here in Germany(my local track is about 393m)they have tracks the same size(i would imagine).Plus it can get pretty damn hot here in Europe too ya know

How big though?Surely regs require it to be under 400m don't they?And these riders(some of them at least)ride in Poland where some of the tracks are just under that.

I thought they disappeared at most football grounds long before the all seater stadiums came in Wouldn't have thought that had much to do with it given the way they seemed to do business.Always remember them at the front of the terraces throwing bags into the crowd and the people throwing the money back.My guess would be they found it harder to get their money thrown back at them or people went off monkey nuts .Nowadays with all seater stadiums it would be easier to walk around and sell stuff.Here in Hamburg we have people walking through the all seater stadium selling food and drink.Last time i was at the HSV stadium there were even people walking around selling Sushi!

It is an interesting situation f-s-p.Quite similar to the German one.The lack of riders(or at least riders of a certain level)can cause problems with a league.That is and was the problem with the restrictions on foreign riders.When a top German rider is injured there is just no way to replace him.Then like you say there will be some tracks that might be willing to run 5 meetings per year but others only feel able to host 1 or 2.In my opinion this idea of 1 or 2 meetings holds the sport back a bit.The meeting in dragged out so long,as like you mention they want to sell as much food and drink as possible and get all the people going round to all the other stalls to buy souvenirs and stuff.The Danish clubs took the leap(although i think some had to be dragged) into running a proper league and it seems to have payed off.The attendances held up quite good.Even on nights when a couple of clubs were running meetings.Still think also that Danish clubs are lagging way behind in their merchandising ideas.Holsted obviously has a Nicki P shop when he is riding but there are very few Holsted souvenirs to buy and not of a great quality.And from what i have seen they are the best track.German tracks are by and large worse. At least in the Bundesliga they have separated the U19 riders and given them their own heats.In 2006 the gaps between the riders was terrible.But there does still seem to be apredictability with these heats.In most meetings last year i think the 4 U19 heats has the exact same 1st-2nd-3rd-4th

Tävlingar

Here is their site Malmö Can't see any fixtures on there yet though

You might be more lucky with a meeting in Malmö Just a bus ride from the train station and 10 minute walk

I don't think the fixtures are out yet Jo.They normally come out pretty late as they really have to wait for the British fixtures so they can avoid clashing.But like Peter S said last year it doesn't pay to run a meeting on the sunday as all the riders are in Poland.Or most of them.You might be lucky though with an 80cc meeting